World from a Quote: Quote Based Worldbuilding

[Jurai]

Riker Garrosh, after a long year of drinking after losing his wife.

"What condiment would work for you, sir?"

[Ozy]

"What condiment would work for you, sir?"
- Vilskar Hrimskr, Mountain-King of the Gornwast Barbarians, to Prince Rigel of the Dust during a heated diplomatic dinner.



"In the Mountains of Heridor, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there he will break all those who come to be broken. But my wife is dust and my brother is soot; My Words have been scattered and stolen; The kingdom of my ancestors has been sewn with salt. I will go to be broken, and God will find he cannot break me any more."

[TheTeaMustFlow]

- Alpha Rodnick, following the fall of the Court Tenebrous to the Second Arcane Right.

`Killing me was your first error. Letting me live shall be your last.`

[GorinichSerpant]

Riker Garrosh, having tracked down the assassin blew up Garrosh's Honeymoon Carriage.

"By ma Mather's Bristles! I'll grind ya bones to bake ma bread and throw the rest in a stew!"

[ReaderAt2046]

Riker Garrosh, having tracked down the assassin blew up Garrosh's Honeymoon Carriage.

"By ma Mather's Bristles! I'll grind ya bones to bake ma bread and throw the rest in a stew!"

Thork the Ogre, after discovering that Riker Garrosh had made off with his magical frying pan.

The North shall see through silver eyes
The East is marked by burning skies
The South's forebearers forget his name
The West doth burn like candleflame

These four the world yet may redeem
Though skull and serpent to win may seem.

[JNAProductions]

Thork the Ogre, after discovering that Riker Garrosh had made off with his magical frying pan.

The North shall see through silver eyes
The East is marked by burning skies
The South's forebearers forget his name
The West doth burn like candleflame

These four the world yet may redeem
Though skull and serpent to win may seem.

-Michael the Seer

"Here's his head-attached to his body, and leading his army."

[Belac93]

-Michael the Seer

"Here's his head-attached to his body, and leading his army."

-Uluthak Darenkas, on Enot, the Sunforger
"I have walked through hell, heaven, and the spaces in between. I have fought the raven knights of the Brimstone prophet. You think you can scare me?"

[LordotTrinkets]

-Uluthak Darenkas, on Enot, the Sunforger
"I have walked through hell, heaven, and the spaces in between. I have fought the raven knights of the Brimstone prophet. You think you can scare me?"

~Felix of Fereign Forest to Vilskar Hrimskrof the Gornwast Barbarians, during the attempted peace council of the Third Gornwast-Krieger War

"Pfft, that bell only rings true because it's too stupid to ring anything else!"

[JNAProductions]

~Felix of Fereign Forest to Vilskar Hrimskrof the Gornwast Barbarians, during the attempted peace council of the Third Gornwast-Krieger War

"Pfft, that bell only rings true because it's too stupid to ring anything else!"

Queen Amalia of the Emerald City, about King Iop (in his presence)

"Nothing better, my friend! Nothing at all better!"

[Jendekit]

Queen Amalia of the Emerald City, about King Iop (in his presence)

"Nothing better, my friend! Nothing at all better!"

Riker Garrosh to his pet lizard Fluffy in regards to the **** & Pickle (a specialty meal at the High Sun Tavern)

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

[Qwertystop]

Riker Garrosh to his pet lizard Fluffy in regards to the **** & Pickle (a specialty meal at the High Sun Tavern)

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

Raza, Low Magus of Vorad, from his journal of amusing nonsenses, platitudes, and half-heard conversation.

"The Light does not hold back the Darkness - for the Shadow flees the Light!"

[Belac93]

Raza, Low Magus of Vorad, from his journal of amusing nonsenses, platitudes, and half-heard conversation.

"The Light does not hold back the Darkness - for the Shadow flees the Light!"

-Enot, the Sunforger

"I am the unknown, the fleeting dream, what waits beyond the farthest horizon. I am knowledge that should not be found, and the whispers in the minds of madmen. If you wish to retain your sanity, come no further."

[Jendekit]

-Enot, the Sunforger

"I am the unknown, the fleeting dream, what waits beyond the farthest horizon. I am knowledge that should not be found, and the whispers in the minds of madmen. If you wish to retain your sanity, come no further."

A wizard that went around calling himself Rizael, the Divine Lactomancer. Most agree that the wizard was a few wagons short of a caravan

"Only one human has ever bested us in battle. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, BE somewhere else."

[TheTeaMustFlow]

"Only one human has ever bested us in battle. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, BE somewhere else."

Vorad VII, the Damned, last words.

"No."

[Celcey]

"No."

-Elteier, former knight of Nessa, current leader of the Firescourged mercenaries, before murdering Vorad VII the Damned.

"I was about to say I couldn't believe you would do that. Then I remembered who I was talking to."

Does anyone want to compile a list of things that have happened? Jendekit did a pretty good one on the first page, so working off of that would be a good idea.

[JNAProductions]

"I was about to say I couldn't believe you would do that. Then I remembered who I was talking to."

An exchange between Riker and Magnus. It is unknown who spoke first.

Does anyone want to compile a list of things that have happened? Jendekit did a pretty good one on the first page, so working off of that would be a good idea.

Yes!

"The world is merely a game, and we are all pawns."

[Belac93]

"The world is merely a game, and we are all pawns."

-Tellurian the Unsung, tired of nobility

"This is the finest tea in all of Nessa. Just be careful, feed it to one of the wererats, and it'll kill it slowly, painfully, over the course of many days. There is no cure. But if you drink it, it'll cure your ulcer right away!"

[Celcey]

"This is the finest tea in all of Nessa. Just be careful, feed it to one of the wererats, and it'll kill it slowly, painfully, over the course of many days. There is no cure. But if you drink it, it'll cure your ulcer right away!"

A Nessan merchant to the father of Emilios tu Varanos, who nearly killed his only son by being careless with his medicine. And he would have too, if it hadn't been for a group of adventurers who happened to stop by at just the right time.

"Everyone is entitled to their basic arcane rights."

[Jendekit]

A Nessan merchant to the father of Emilios tu Varanos, who nearly killed his only son by being careless with his medicine. And he would have too, if it hadn't been for a group of adventurers who happened to stop by at just the right time.

"Everyone is entitled to their basic arcane rights."

Riker Garrosh, after eating twenty pounds of a newly discovered mushroom but before challenging the local king's horse to a duel for "impugning upon my honor!" From what observers could determine, the high Riker thought that the horse had an affair with his half human, half wolf, half mushroom, half goldfish (specifically in that order) wife. It was three days before Riker was able to remember that he was not married at the time.

"SILENCE! I KEEL YOU!!!"

[TheTeaMustFlow]

"SILENCE! I KEEL YOU!!!"

Riker Garrosh, last words of his fifth life.

"Of course they were marked `half off` you idiot! They're all made for gnomes!"

[GorinichSerpant]

"Of course they were marked `half off` you idiot! They're all made for gnomes!"

Riker Garrosh right before dieing a sixth time, to gnomes.

"Bloody Claxnax bring a plague of maggots upon you!"

[Celcey]

"Bloody Claxnax bring a plague of maggots upon you!"

Hector DeBrewlidard, High Priest of "Bloody" Claxnax, after losing his poker game to a friend.

"Damn it all, it's time for Plan C."

[Belac93]

"Damn it all, it's time for Plan C."

Queen Amalia of the Emerald City, during a war counsel.

"Let me out, and I will give you all you desire. Riches, power, love, just let me out."

[Jendekit]

Queen Amalia of the Emerald City, during a war counsel.

"Let me out, and I will give you all you desire. Riches, power, love, just let me out."

Kt'zk Kt'gvan, a jinn trapped within an ancient clay spittoon.

"WHY? WHY DO THEY ALWAYS ASK FOR VIRGINS?"

[Qwertystop]

Kt'zk Kt'gvan, a jinn trapped within an ancient clay spittoon.

"WHY? WHY DO THEY ALWAYS ASK FOR VIRGINS?"

Kt'zk Kt'gvan again, after his fifth release.

It was terrible, and wonderful, and didn't care what you thought of it.

[IZ42]

- Riker Garrosh, on the first warbeast of Nessa


'And so the fire burned, not sated by mere flesh and bone, devouring our very hopes and dreams, the foundation we were built upon, destroying us utterly.'

[TheTeaMustFlow]

- 'And so the fire burned, not sated by mere flesh and bone, devouring our very hopes and dreams, the foundation we were built upon, destroying us utterly.'

Admiral-Dictator Eidel Schwartz, on the fall of the Court Tenebrous.

"You must be a Garrosh. I've never seen anyone else this chewed up and still trying to wave a sword. Shut up and lie down."

[Thorongil]

"You must be a Garrosh. I've never seen anyone else this chewed up and still trying to wave a sword. Shut up and lie down."

Dalendo the Stitched, Captain of the City Guard in the city of Steamspire, and sometime reanimated corpse.




"Y'know, when we were still little 'uns, they told us in temple-school that the old madman had left seven centuries ago, never to return."

-Pointing towards the horizon-

"Guess they forgot to tell them that."

[Belac93]

"Y'know, when we were still little 'uns, they told us in temple-school that the old madman had left seven centuries ago, never to return."

-Pointing towards the horizon-

"Guess they forgot to tell them that."

-Hathoger, chief Nessa guard. Talking to Queen Amalia in the year 2739, later known as: "The year of Death's overtime."

"Drive them back to were they came! Protect the queen!"

[IZ42]

-Taal N'zaa, High Captain of the Royal Guard of the Eastern Holy Empire, attacked by Guerilla forces in Nessa.



'What is magic but a tool for those who would seek power?'